Brabant Massif, Lessines-Dender valley, Carriere de la Dendre (Ordovician of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (50.7° N, 3.8° E: paleocoordinates 52.5° S, 10.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pleurograptus linearis graptolite zone, Fauquez Formation, Caradocian (460.9 - 449.5 Ma)

• Zone Pleurograptus linearis (Middle Caradocian - Late Caradocian). Fauquez Formation given Herbosch & Verniers (2014)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: J. Maletz and T. Servais. 1998. Upper Ordovician graptolites from the Brabant Massif, Belgium. Geobios 31(1):21-37 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 145601: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 06.06.2013

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Diplograptidae
 Graptoloidea - Climacograptidae
Diplacanthograptus dorotheus Riva 1976 climacograptid
 Graptoloidea - Dicranograptidae
 Graptoloidea - Normalograptidae
Normalograptus "sp. 2" Legrand 1987 graptolite